Robert Ash: For centuries, up through today, European-descended Christians have exclusively portrayed our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as being European in virtually every visual representation they have made including paintings, books, television, and films, but overuse and abuse of European images have "given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme" Him (2 Sam 12:14) by calling Christianity a "white man’s religion," a religion of racial prejudice, when it is neither. This has even continued decades after it has become widely known that Jesus was not a European at all.
Robert Ash: Egyptians were very prominent in bloodline and ethnic heritage of Israel. They were in Egypt for over 400 years and they didn’t grow from 70 people to 2.5 million people just marrying each other. Joseph married an African woman while he was president of Egypt. Her name was Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of the city of On [Gen 41:45]. Joseph’s children were half-African and each of his two half-African children [Ephraim and Manasseh] became a tribe of Israel. Because the tribe of Levi was not counted in the census of armed men for Israel’s army, Joseph was given two half-tribes. Two of Israel’s tribes were fathered by men who had African blood in their veins. All of the Jews from both of these tribes had an African forefather and they’re not the only ones. A large mixed multitude of Africans came out of Egypt with the Israelites [Ex 12:38].
